Read the excerpt from "lessons of dr. martin luther king, jr."
we have witnessed truckloads of grapes being dumped because no one would stop to buy them. as demand drops, so do prices and profits. the growers are under tremendous economic pressure.
we are winning, but there is still much hard work ahead of us.
the details in this passage best support the theme that
standing up for others takes courage and sacrifice.
people can make a positive change by working together.
sometimes people have to be unfair to achieve justice.
it is often difficult to take action against others.

What element of dante's inferno shows the reader that he wants to expose corruption in the church? a. by placing many church leaders among the sinners in hell b. by changing his own personality to create the dante character c. by allowing virgil, a well-respected poet, to be his guide d. by setting his story in hell and following the biblical description of hell2b2t

As you progressed through old english texts to middle english to modern english, how did your understanding of the literature change?

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme